Della, your seedling Best of Friends x Fireworks Display is very nice!!

Bron, I love the form on Duchess of Windsor.

I agree.

Awesome feedback, guys. Bron, I've just rehomed the Bill Kessler seedling, even though I really liked it, because I decided I didn't want to go anywhere in that charcoal-eye direction - there are too many other things I like too!

Pics for today... Peacock Maiden, first time she's flowered for me:


...and seedlings!


Altered State x Big Red Wagon almost opened.


Bluegrass Memories x Magnificent Magpie finally happy.


Tiny wee thing, lost label but I'm guessing it had something to do with Corky in the not-to-distant past.


Starman's Quest x Skinwalker, thanks Cynthia!


Another Beautiful Edgings x Someplace Special seedling.

and...


Brer Rabbit's Baby x Rose F. Kennedy, morning and evening.

It is so hot and dry. I am spending my pennies sprinkling tonight.

This is my strangest seedling. I nearly lost it to root rot in having to move it. The substance is like a thick piece of card board soaked in wax. I have been trying to cross it but no luck with its pollen working so far. MILANESE MANGOXSEEDLING 2012 057



STOP AND STARE. It should be called 'Stop And Run Away Screaming'.


BILINGA playing around with its sculpting and polying too.



FLORE PLENO. I am going to have to do something about the ever-expanding clump. I had a terrible time getting it to grow and now it is going for world domination.


KING KAHUNA is a great plant. It teems with large fluffy blooms.


VOLARIS


CARROT CAKE is yummy


LAKE NORMAN SUNSET


JUST GORGEOUS with blowfly


WESTBOURNE TID BIT x JOSIE 2014229


Orange Noid x Thin Man 2016,14,4, This is a big vigorous plant with a bold flower.


CRIMSON ICON


An uninteresting new seedling KING LAMONI x VOLARIS #KV2016 OO1


EMMA TOMLINSON MCHUGH


Orange Noid x Thin Man 2016,14,4. Loc. cit.

Ooooooooooooooooo Brer Rabbit's Baby x Rose F. Kennedy,.

The days are 14 and a half hours now, and very hot. But the nights are cool. No rain in sight. I wasn't able to take pics y'day but had missed posting some earlier ones. They are becoming fewer. Except TROPICAL HEAT WAVE and MALENY EYECATCHER which keep going.
SECRET GARDEN I took this leaning over and down. Only noticed in the pic it had large cream areas esplly around the mid rib areas
Sorry these below were taken late afternoon today
MIDNIGHT MAGIC at last in the ground. It only gets very early and very late sun
BLACK BRIAR BAY which is in a very shady spot and hard to take pics of it.
Gleaming in the last rays after a day of hot sun Yellow NOID
A bit darker today but showing no stress from full sun all day DUCHESS OF WINDSOR
Also fine in the sun all day the maybe WHITE OPAL
VINTAGE BORDEAUX got too much sun
SC TINY PERFECTION is a lot nicer than the pics of it. Esplly the apricot orange colour

Loving the blooms Della, Glen and Bron

The Australian hybridizer Mardi Waring died on 10 November 2016. She registered 30 daylilies all with the epithet of Linden. She and her husband retired in Harvey Bay in Queensland. Her funeral will be held on 22 November 2016.

She was always helpful and gave of her knowledge freely. She will be much missed.



LINDEN CAPRICIOUS

So sorry for your loss. The blooms are beautiful.

She certainly left a lovely legacy with all those beautiful daylilies! Sorry to hear such a wonderful hybridizer has passed away.

More blooms in the garden.

Some seedlings
VOLARIS x Bilinga 2016,11,2


MILANESE MANGO X UNK 2012 115. It only took four years to flower. It dies off in winter as a dormant. Painful.



KING LAMONI x HEARTS AND LACE 2014234


WESTBOURNE TID BIT x JOSIE 2014225


MILANESE MANGO X UNK 2012 109


Other blooms


Still my favorite daylily But others are catching up fast. OLD TANGIERS.




FULL OF TREASURE is reblooming

Beautiful all but really liking that Get Jiggy

Bron, it is nice that Duchess of Windsor is sunfast! It is a beauty:)

Glen, so sorry to hear of your loss. I bet she was a wonderful mentor. Sounds like her hybridizing program was just getting underway. I hope someone picks up where she left off.

Vickie, Mardi had actually stopped because of health problems towards the end of the last decade. She had so many cultivars still to register even then but time just moved on. I asked about photos to try and get them on the database but so many of hers were either lost or not elecronic.

My internet keeps dropping out. Maybe the modem is kaput.

Lovely blooms Glen. As far as I know I have only one seed pod, a bee pod, on a 'Maleny Eyecatcher '. There are not many plants that I wld like to load up with that extra task. I have to dig much more to plant what I have, then there are the 53 sdlgs from Della.

MISSOURI MEMORIES keeps going nicely. The diamond dusting shows up in the late afternoon sun

It would be wonderful if Mardi had a daylily fanatic near her who could register one of her recent seedlings as MARDI WARING or M W MEMORIAL.

Sorry I am not posting much. Apart from being away a bit, I am frustrated by technological problems. The on again off again internet seems OK now. But half the photos I take are focussed on the ground under the bloom. Thought it was my hands which are suffering from the work i have been doing. As well the Photos app on this laptop has updated to something even more user unfriendly.

I am flat out watering and weeding pots and trying to make more planting areas. Thankfully we have not had the constant wind for a while now. These are from a day ago when it was very hot.

I had to finish the last post as the next pic was stalled loading. MM looks cool and soft, like icecream or meringue buttercream


MILDRED MITCHELL looked pretty washed out except the eyezone was very blue

Orange NOID looked angry in the heat

I have to lean forward and take upside down photos of this BYRON


The red NOID flowers are at eyelevel when I stand down the slope near its base. So at least 5 ft tall as I am 5 ft 5 in.

This HDL Red gets a little shade

That is tall, Bron! Love it.

More blooms.

A new seedling. King Kahuna x 42nd Street 2016,12,1


Firsts for the garden
RUFFLED MASTERWORK. I couldn't believe the size and thickness of this bloom. I needed a wheelbarrow to carry it away when I deadheaded it the next day!



A swap from Bron. ELLEN CHRISTINE. It hasn't doubled fully for me with its first blooms yet.


First for the season is Alexander's unregistered Maleny Dazzling Belle. Nice bloom but is a rust bucket par excellence.


Otrhers
ADMIRALS BRAID is reblooming


DEBBIE MEAD


FORESTLAKE RAGAMUFFIN


Nunan's MERYL is a classy bloom. It deserves to be better known.


So is his HELENA SEABIRD

Love the dble sdlg Glen. Unusual stripes, reminds me of a clown's suit.

I agree that MERYL is very impressive. Also RUFFLED MASTERWORK. I almost bought it but when I made an order they didn't have it for sale.

Love the colours in FORESTLAKE RAGAMUFFIN. glowing
Nice to see DEBBIE MEAD. After struggling for the 3 years I have had it, it appears to have given up. Don't think it will revive as did DONNA MEAD as DEBBIE M has never looked healthy to me.

It was again 31 deg Celsius today, 3 degrees hotter than the airport just a few kms away but right near the ocean.
Maleny Eyecatcher does well
SECRET GARDEN is next to a 6ft + lilium auratum hybrid. So it gets a bit of shade.
My BEYOND THUNDER DOME suffered yet another misadventure. Something had dug it up completely, so lucky I found it.
MAKING WHOOPEE would be great if more shaded
Yellow weigelia NOID gets some nice shade
MISSOURI MEMORIES is a powerhouse of bloom
GRACEFUL EYE appears to be a great performer too
have to post rest tomorrow

RIP Mrs Waring.
Bron, Della and Glen, I am absolutely enjoying the beautiful flowers.